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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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